Bells
bells rung in the temple and my belly full of ale
we are neighbors now in our public faith
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 August 1667.
Dave Bonta
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bells rung in the temple and my belly full of ale
we are neighbors now in our public faith
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 August 1667.
The poem sets two very different pleasures side by side: the sound of bells ringing in a temple and the warm, heavy feeling of a belly full of ale. One is sacred, the other earthly, and the speaker doesn't treat them as opposites. Instead, the second stanza draws them together.
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